Lot Essay
For three pieces of early period Worcester porcelain decorated with this Japanese-inspired 'Banded Hedge' pattern see Simon Spero and John Sandon, Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790 The Zorensky Collection, Woodbridge, 1988, pp. 94-95, nos. 48-50, with no. 49, a yellow-ground stand for a potting-pot, also moulded with the same simulated basketweave pattern as that on the present lot. A Worcester teapot-stand of this pattern was sold by Bonhams in London, 'The Zorensky Collection of Worcester Porcelain', Part I, on 16 March 2004, lot 59.